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Plus, who said that (a) I know what I want, (b) what I want is good for me (c) what I want is good for society in general, anyway?

Then who is making those decisions for you?

One would hope that experts on societal, political and economic issues are, combined with people close to me, and ultimately myself.

There's definitely no reason to believe that any individual is always an expert of his own life.